Daniel Probst

There are open-source alternatives, e.g. languagetool.org or writewithharper.com

YouTube video by Zoognosis with Joy! Dealing with Irrational Animal Phobias (1K Subscriber Special)

Thanks to this video by @zoognosisjoy.bsky.social I understand my chicken phobia a bit better.

... not that chicken phobia is irrational. They're definitely dangerous and have weird feet. You've seen in Jurassic Park what dinosaurs are capable of...

(Btw, thanks for the answers. Also, I just watched your video on irrational animal phobia and I do not think I'm ready to overcome my fear of chicken with exposure therapy 😊)

Ah I didn't consider the ethics of it, but very good that this is the case. So a control would be an object that isn't a crystal, but even then I guess group dynamics and behaviour would make it hard to isolate it as a reason for a behavioural change or lack thereof?

The so-called poverty draft does not seem to be a thing *anymore* in the US, those joining now have a higher-than-median family income [1,2].

[1] www.ifn.se/media/4fdbrr...
[2] www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So I know very, very little about anything related to field work, but would dropping crystals in the wild, let chimps find them, and observe need a control?

Sorry if it's in the article, but is it assumed (or known) that this would influence their behaviour when it vomes to this? Or the other way around: Can it be assumed that a "wild" chimpanzee would behave the same?

Europeans who happen to live in North America naming a weapon Tomahawk is also a major perversion...

Why ‪@why.bsky.team‬ Until December of last year I was using LLMs as fancy autocomplete for coding. It was nice for scaffolding out boilerplate, or giving me a gut check on some things, or banging out some boring routine stuff. In the past two months Claude has written about 99% of my code. Things are changing. Fast

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank

bsky.app/profile/why....

Thanks! I was wondering whether it relates to humans or to the culture of a specific group (family? group?) of chimps

What does "enculturated chimp" mean?

Meanwhile, the actual issue is to make sure that it is consentual, given this highly exploitative industry

We examined how well AI-based antibody-antigen structure prediction pipelines perform at the practical discovery-critical task of differentiating true binders from plausible but incorrect ones. Short answer: not very well.

Read the paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Europe's last centre-a-littlt-bit-left government.

Gotta defend the colo... I mean geostrategic interests

Manifest destiny
By any other name
It all turns out the same

#medievalsky Sources of the day: SSRQ GR B II/2, Nr. 624-626
A long-running, but peaceful, pasture dispute between two villages in Grisons suddenly turned violent in 1487 and after a day 13 people were dead.
The baffled authorities, attempting to stop a cycle of violence, decided to.../1

I hate to say it (well, no I don't), but if your work gets so much better with "AI", you might not be very good at what you do...

Go Spain!

Hier nennen sie ihn Teflon Mark. Hat politisch u.a. das hier überlebt: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_c....

Aah ok. I had no idea this was a thing 😊

The notion that such things happen due to specific leaders, while a convenient absolution for many, is a big part of why they keep happening. It's a consequence of the (political, social, cultural, ...) superstructure in certain countries that most of us here are part of and profit from.

What are book stamps?

If I'd see the tshirts in the wild without knowing the channel I would think "why haven't I heard of this early 2000s skate punk band with such a weird name?"

That's a good thing 😉

But that means they have more time for doom scrolling and that really brings them down. It's literally *the* worst. And then the petrol gets more expensive *ugh*.

Would also make for a good album cover

If "how can I make this about me" were a discipline at the Winter Olympics, someone would have gotten 13 gold medals.

Und man darf dafür noch bezahlen!

The country that has been at war for ~93% of its existence did what?!

* Currently, they're involved in 5
* More than 40 were part of the North American genocide
* The most recent one is #30 in the 21. century alone
* Switzerland was involved in 3: Twice as US opponents (including 1x as mercenaries)

Plus New Horizons de-spin weights—didn't know about these